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Syria's Red Line

Firstly it is worth to know here that nearly 10000 people are thought to be dead in the Syrian conflict.
As the West and their tail nations prepare to make airstrikes against the Syrian regime to counter its alleged use of chemical weapons last week, queues of global leaders and their cheering commentators are using a superior sense of morality to justify it. Last year, US president commented in a conference as the use chemical weapons being a "red line" in Syria - and now that it has been crossed, we are told that we must act.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has made his stand on this issue as he described the attacks as "morally obscene" . David Cameron, has said that the world cannot "stand idly by" in the face of the Syrian regime's "morally indefensible" use of chemical weapons. To me it will be surely a lose-lose situation where any military intervention is done right now. 
Why should military action be necessitated by outrage over chemical attacks? 
US has described that the last week's chemical attack as a red line. Well the whole world is sad on the last week's issue. It is moral to oppose use of chemical weapons. And i have  some questions to the interventionists.....

Was there a red line on chemical weapons when the US used depleted-uranium ammunition in Fallujah?

Was there a red line when Israel deployed white phosphorous in Gaza in 2008?

When Saddam Hussein, then a western ally, gassed the Iranians and then his own people during the 1980s

What is the answer for the years from 1962 to 1971, where US military sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of defoliants and herbicides over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in a bid to deprive the Vietcong of food and cover. The Vietnamese government estimates that 400,000 people were killed or maimed and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of the so-called 'rainbow herbicides.'(Russia Today)
what makes the interventionists  so lacking in credibility when it comes to preaching codes of warfare to the Middle East. If they care about Syria they would have "done something" constructive much sooner , and not like as the so-called liberals suggest, stormed in with counterproductive airstrike, and for sure these air strikes if made is going to kill many innocent civilians too.
It is useless to justify military interventions using democratic values and attractive human rights slogans when it suits particular agendas of the time. Never too late, Only a  Globally supported diplomatic solution can pave way to peace to Syria.
References form the recent news regarding this above article was from BBC, AlJazeera and Russia Today.

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